wilkes

You might try a defrag.  It will locate and disable bad sectors in your hd.

I would be thinking about getting a new hard drive.

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I ended up reformatting and reinstalling. It's working for now. I attempted to create another partition at the end of the disk to move all of the data to, but Partition Magic got an error and I lost the format of the whole disk. Thank goodness for RecoverLostData by Stompsoft, nothing is ever really gone. I put the drive in a good PC and recovered all of the files. I spent most of the day separating good data from junk, because I didn't have a directory structure, just thousands of files.

Hard Drive going bad

I had the same thing happen on a laptop the other day. It was a hard drive going bad. I did the same exact steps to resolve it and it did great until I rebooted and then the same error. I reformatted and reloaded and after a few reboots, the same thing. I replaced the HD and reloaded, no other errors appeared. This system was only about a year old. Just an fyi. Now this may not be the problem but that is what worked for me.

Try this

http://support.microsoft.co...

If that works the driivers, cableing ect. is OK and the problem is probably a slow hard drive (slow to spin up) try restart instead of shutdown, if restart works replace the hard drive

Did this just suddenly happen on an previously well running system? No major updates or software installs just prior?

Did you try the fixboot command instead of chkdsk /r?

If it's a fresh install on previously well running system (or just known good hardware), it is probably a motherboard/chipset driver issue. Visit the motherboard manufacturer's website and use their drivers - even if XP thinks it is happy with the stock MS ones.

If the system has been running for a while and this just started, sounds like the harddrive, or controller, or cable may be heading south. Download something that can read the SMART values off of the drive - I think SpeedFan can do that for most of them - and see if it is begging to be put down.

Or, if a dual boot setup - possible your other OS is clobbering the boot partition each time you boot it - common with vista, I expect common with W7 also.

Windows XP blues screens on boot, "unmountable boot volume". I thought I'd fix this easy, just run chkdsk from the recovery console. We'll that worked; it came on up after chkdsk, just like I thought it would.

The problem is that every time it is shutdown, it gets the same error on boot. I run chkdsk, errors are found and fixed, and it boots on up.

Anyone seen this before?